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Plugin and Extension for web development

Plugins and Extensions for Web Development

Google Chrome extension gallery has hundreds of useful extensions. Since Chrome interface is the simplest an the best among other browsers, you have enjoyed dozens of extensions in your window. With Google Chrome extensions, you can add more features to the browser which you feel that are useful for your daily work. So, if you are bloggers or a web developer, here’s is 35 useful Google Chrome extensions that will help you in your work and possibly replace some of your existing tools in your computer. Since Chrome is faster than most of the other web browsers, and also uses fewer CPU resources, you can enjoy the best browsing experience with additional features using an extension. Although chrome comes with built-in Developer Tools (accessible by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I) you can use some plugins in the below list to fill the gap for what you feel missing in the developer tool. Chrome has improved and became the most used and favourite browser rapidly. So check how better chrome you can make with the help of below plugins.

Top 35 Plugins and Extensions for Web Development and Blogging

  1. Apture Highlights: Apture Highlight is a free tool, built from the ground up to let you take the power of Google search, and the richness YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia with you to any site. Just highlight a phrase on any site to reveal the web’s best content without ever leaving the page. Fast, powerful, and fun.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  2. Zemanta: It supports Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Drupal, Tumblr and email platforms Google Mail and Yahoo!Mail. Zemanta expands the regular blogging dashboard, populating it on the fly with content suggestions relevant to the current text. It presents images, links, articles, tags in a simple interface. It encourages re-use and linking to other content with as little effort as possible.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  3. WordPress Comments Notifier: This plugin will check for new pending comments on your WordPress blog and display it as a badge.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  4. Google Mail Checker Plus: This is an excellent extension to check your Gmail inbox and also get a preview and allows you to delete, archive, spam, star and mark as reading functionality.
    • Mail preview window, read mail without leaving the current tab
    • Delete, archive, spam, star and mark as reading functionality
    • Desktop and sound notifications when new mail arrives
    • Support for multiple Google and Google Apps accounts
    • Mailto-links open in your Gmail or Google Apps Mail account
    • Monitor all your labels or priority inbox
    • Translated to over 60 languages!Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  5. Send from Gmail (by Google): This extension will open a Compose window in Gmail when you click any email address on a webpage. It also provides a button that will create a Gmail message when clicked, using the page title as the subject and selected page text and link address as the message.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  6. WebEdit: A superb extension for killing time while experimenting with your developer skills. Use it to edit (non-permanently, of course) any webpage you like. Very fun extension can be used to edit any webpage!! Just press F12 on any HTTP:// webpage, and edit text and delete things like photos, and embed elements. You can even delete a YouTube video of a page! Once you’ve had your fun, just press F2 to turn off edit mode, for a convincing looking defaced webpage. *Note changes are not permanent, once you refresh, they will go away.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  7. Chrome Flags: Chrome Flags tells you the physical location of the website you’re viewing by displaying the appropriate national flag. Also, web analytic information from Google Trends, Quantcast, Compete and Alexa.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  8. Site Geo IP Locator: This extension is similar to Chrome flags but this displays the IP location in map Geolocation. You just need to click on the GEO locate button while you are on a web page, it will reveal the IP host location with map.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  9. Official Picnik Extension for Chrome: The Picnik Extension for Chrome lets you easily edit the images you come across while browsing the web. With a click, you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing. Do the same for all the image on the current page — just pick the image from the dynamic hot list and then edit, annotate and share with Picnik.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  10. Aviary Screen Capture: Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools. This quick screen capture addon is a must-have for bloggers and designers alike! It will perform a screen capture of the visible portion of any webpage and then open the capture INSTANTLY in a basic image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), edit (crop, rotate and resize) and get the exact pixel colours of the image. A perfect companion tool for designers and bloggers!Features:
    • Save to desktop, host online, or edit in other Aviary apps.
    • Captures instantly.
    • Screen capture of the visible portion of all web pages and images.
    • Capture entire web pages.
    • Add visual notes like arrows, text and highlights to your capture.
    • Crop your capture.
    • Resize, rotate and flip your capture.
    • Smart select and move of captured elements.
    • Grab colour information from the page.
    • Quick launch 6 Aviary design tools: the Image editor, markup editor, vector editor, colour palette editor, effects editor & audio editor.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  11.  Chrome SEO: The Google Chrome SEO Extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks, PageRank Checks and other daily SEO tasks.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  12. SEO Analysis Tool: SEO Workers Analysis Tool extension allows you to perform a basic analysis of the page in your browser with a single click. The results from the SEO Workers Analysis Tool are structured into the following useful groups:General status, meta tags listing, meta tags analysis, the pages displayed within search engine results, keywords found in the anchor tags, keywords found in the image “alt” attribute text, keywords found on the page, URLs found in the page, headers returned from the server.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  13. SeoQuake Lite: This extension displays the Google PageRank and Alexa rank of any web pages you are viewing in your chrome browser.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  14.  META SEO inspector: This extension shows you the information you need about the META tags on a specific web page you are viewing, this metadata includes keywords, description, title, copyright, etc. It can be very useful for bloggers in quick checking the post SEO details without login into their blog. Best used in conjunction with other SEO tools, like Chrome SEO or SEO Site Tools.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  15. Google Tasks – Easy to-do list on a browser: Essentially a to-do list built into your browser, Google Tasks is another extension which is useful for everyone.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  16. LastPass – Save and access your password faster: LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure.
    This one’s great for everyone, not just web developers – you can use LastPass to securely store and manage all of the passwords that you use online.  To import Chrome passwords (Windows only currently), you’ll also need our full Windows installer available on http://lastpass.com/Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  17. Validity- Check HTML Validation: Validity can be used to quickly validate your HTML documents from the address bar. Just click the icon in the address bar to validate the current document without leaving the page. The number of validation errors can be seen in the tooltip and the detail can be seen in the Javascript console. Validity also gives you the option to use your own installation of the W3C Validation Service. (For more information on installing the W3C Validation Service see the documentation at http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html).Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  18. FastestChrome – Browse Faster: FastestFox, one of the most popular Firefox extensions with over 10 million users is now available for Chrome!FastestChrome is easy to use. Simply look at the previews to the right. All features are configurable via options.Features:
    • Endless Pages automatically loads the next page just before you reach the end so you don’t have to click “Next” or wait.
    • Look up definitions instantly by highlighting a word.
    • Better Google: shows you relevant results from real-time and shopping search engines such as OneRiot and Amazon
    • Search more conveniently: select text then clicks on a search engine to search.
    • Automatically turns text URLs into links.
    • Adds related articles to WikipediaPlugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  19. Eye Dropper – Color picker for developers: Eye Dropper is the extension for Google Chrome and Chromium. It allows you to pick the colour from any webpage or from the advanced colour picker. It is a great tool for web developers.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  20. Speed Tracer (by Google): Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low-level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application. This includes problems caused by:
    * Javascript parsing and execution
    * CSS style recalculation and selector matching
    * DOM Event handling
    * Network resource loading
    * Timer fires
    * XMLHttpRequest callbacks
    * Painting
    * and more …Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  21. Web Developer: The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  22. BuiltWith Technology Profiler: BuiltWith is a website profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  23. MeasureIt! – Drag and draw ruler to get the height and width: MeasureIt! gives you a ruler to draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  24. Chrome Sniffer – Auto Detect CMS used in a website: This extension will help web developer to inspect web framework / CMS and javascript library running on current browsing website. An icon will appear on address bar indicates the detected framework. Currently, this extension can detect more than 50 popular CMS and javascript libraries, and more will be added in future releases. Visit the extension website for more detail.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  25. Session Manager: With Session Manager, you can quickly save your current browser state and reload it whenever necessary.
    You can manage multiple sessions, rename or remove them from the session library.
    Each session remembers the state of the browser at its creation time, i.e the opened tabs and windows.
    Once a session is opened, the browser is restored to its state.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  26. TooManyTabs for Chrome: Ever tried having 20 tabs or more open in Chrome? You can’t even see the favicon of the tabs, not to mention the tag titles! If that happens to you, TooManyTabs is a must-have extension that manages your tabs, reduces your tab overflow, and saves your sanity! From the makers of TooManyTabs for Firefox, TMT has come to Chrome to help all your tab needs!
    – Bird’s eye view of all opened tabs
    – Clear preview of each tab’s content (fills up gradually as you use)
    – Instant tab search
    – Sort tabs by creation time, domain or title
    – Restore recently closed tabs
    – Suspend idle tabs and save memory, organize with custom columns
    – Custom themesPlugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  27. Domain Availability Checker: This extension checks the availability of a domain name. What’s the point of going to another page when you can check it from your toolbar. A large number of domain extensions are supported, and if you want to suggest more or other registrars, leave a comment below and on the next release, we’ll try to put that one in. Automatic domain checker periodically checks the expiry date and alerts you when the domain’s status changes. Watch domains manually by adding to favourites or check automatically, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or quarterly.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  28. Snippy: Snippy allows you to grab snippets of web pages, save them for future use and upload them to Google Docs. Snippy capture rich contents and preserves formatting, so you can capture paragraphs, images, links and more. Snippy saves the captured snippets on your browser. If you want, you can decide to upload them Google Docs, or SnipBin (http://snipbin.appspot.com), to have them available even outside of Chrome, edit and share them with your friends.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  29. Firebug Lite for Chrome: Firebug Lite is not a substitute for Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools. It is a tool to be used in conjunction with these tools. Firebug Lite provides the rich visual representation we are used to seeing in Firebug when it comes to HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box Model shading. It provides also some cool features like inspecting HTML elements with your mouse and live editing CSS properties.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  30. Ibrii: Ibrii allows users to snip every type of content found on the internet no matter if it is simple text, a photo, a video or even an embedded object, like streaming audio. What makes Ibrii unique is that it gives the possibility to share distinct elements of web pages and not links to entire pages as do numerous other services present on the internet. Ibrii allows users to mix videos, text or photos from different pages into a single note and later share that note with friends.
    Sharing contents have never been easier. Ibrii gives users the possibility to decide how to share the contents. Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz are the primary sharing channels, but users can also create a personalized permalink to the contents and share that permalink through instant messaging and other social networks. Ibrii also gives the possibility to create an RSS feed for one’s personal blog.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  31. ChromeMUSE – Multi-URL Shortener/Expander: ChromeMUSE is an extension to facilitate the use of URL shortening services. A short URL can be generated for any web page, using the user’s preferred shortening service. The short URL is automatically copied to the clipboard to paste into other applications. 
    • Shorten URLs with one-click operation in Simple Mode. The shortened URL is automatically copied to a clipboard.
    • Advanced Mode allows choice of service on the fly. The services to be listed in the drop-down menu can be configured in the options.
    • Supports login credentials, for services like bit.ly and cli.gs.
    • Scans web pages for short URLs and automatically updates the target URL. The title of the website is displayed as a tooltip when available.
    • Supports dynamically updated (AJAX) websites (eg. twitter.com) without having to refresh the page.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  32. jQuery Shell: jQuery Shell allows you to run JavaScript and jQuery 1.4.4 multi-line scripts in the context of the current web page.  It is the simple tool to use when experimenting with / learning JavaScript and jQuery commands.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  33. Cooliris: Meet Cooliris, the 3D Wall that speeds up the search on Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and more. Enjoy the richest way to view photos from Facebook, Picasa, and even your own computer. On our infinite 3D Wall, you can effortlessly scroll through thousands of images and videos in seconds without having to click from page to page.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  34. Digg for Chrome: This is the official Digg plugin for chrome, it also comes with sharing buttons for Twitter, Facebook and email. It automatically shows the number of Digg for the page you are viewing including the number of comments and the number of views that page got from Digg.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging
  35. Instant Image Editor: Simple and easy image editing while you browse, it comes with many features available in Pixler. And that the wrap! if you know any more cool chrome extensions, drop your opinion below using the comment form.Plugins and Extensions for web development and blogging

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